If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you're a winner.

I think people can handle 150 to 200 miles a week. But something has to give somewhere. If he's a student, how's he going to study? He may be at the age of chasing and courtship, and that's an important form of sport and recreation, too.

Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

If someone says, 'Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?' ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?.... The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.

I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.

If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you're a winner.